Nonabsorbing mirrors for quantum-well colliding pulse mode-locked lasers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 293-295

  Tandoi, Giuseppe ^a   Ironside, Charles N ^a   Bryce, A Catrina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catastrophic optical mirror damage; colliding pulse mode locked lasers; nonabsorbing mirrors; quantum well; quantum well intermixing; ultrashort pulses

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC OPTICAL MIRROR DAMAGES; COLLIDING-PULSE MODE-LOCKED LASERS; NONABSORBING MIRRORS; QUANTUM WELL; QUANTUM-WELL INTERMIXING;

LASERS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MIRRORS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 79951842552     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2010.2103935     Document Type: Article

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